text: Fowler was born in Miami, Florida, and attended the University of South Florida, where she received her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1964.  There, she worked in the laboratories of Jack Fernandez.  Fowler received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Colorado in 1967 and did her postdoctoral work at the University of East Anglia in England and at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Fowler worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1969 until her retirement in January 2014.  She is an emeritus professor in the chemistry department at Stony Brook University.
  She is married to Frank Fowler, an emeritus professor of organic chemistry at Stony Brook University.